Andrew Chan famous quotes

I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.
-- Andrew Chan

#Believe #Maybe Tomorrow #Want

When I got back to my cell, I said, 'God, I asked you to set me free, not kill me.' God spoke to me and said, 'Andrew, I have set you free from the inside out, I have given you life!' From that moment on I haven't stopped worshipping Him. I had never sung before, never led worship, until Jesus set me free.
-- Andrew Chan

#Jesus #Cells #Worship

I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.
-- Andrew Chan

#Brother #Dad #Men

I'm thankful that every day I actually get to wake up.
-- Andrew Chan

#Wake Up

I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.
-- Andrew Chan

#Brother #Sticks #Looks

I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.
-- Andrew Chan

#Jobs #Thinking #Too Much

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara